MOSCOW, Nov 10 — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a treaty on the country’s strategic partnership with North Korea, which includes a mutual defence provision, according to a decree published yesterday.

SEOUL, Nov 5 — North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said military drills by the United States, Japan and South Korea justify North Korea’s nuclear reinforcement, state media KCNA said today.

SEOUL, Oct 31 — North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast early today, said South Korea and Japan, a day after Seoul reported the North was making preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile.

SEOUL, Sept 13 — North Korea for the first time showed images of the centrifuges that produce fuel for its nuclear bombs on Friday, as leader Kim Jong Un visited a uranium enrichment facility and called for more weapons-grade material to boost the arsenal.

SEOUL, Aug 26 — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watched as new “suicide drones” took off and destroyed test targets including a mock tank, and urged researchers to develop artificial intelligence for the unmanned vehicles, state media reported today.

SEOUL, Aug 20 — Over 200 South Korean and United States (US) fighter jets are due to fly around the clock for five days this week in what would mark the largest number of sorties flown in training by the allies, South Korea's Air Force said today.

SEOUL, Aug 15 — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has offered to establish a working-level consultative body with North Korea to discuss ways to ease tension and resume economic cooperation, as he laid out his vision for unification of the neighbours.

PARIS/SEOUL, July 27 — Paris Olympic organisers have apologised to South Korea after their delegation was labelled the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on the television broadcast of yesterday's opening ceremony down the River Seine, reported the German News Agency (dpa).

SEOUL, July 27 — South Korea has expressed regret that its delegation of athletes at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony yesterday was introduced as from rival North Korea and has demanded assurances from organisers the mistake will not happen again.

TOKYO, July 12 — Japan has warned that China risked escalating tension with Taiwan with an increase in military exercises that appeared aimed in part at readying Beijing's forces for a possible invasion of the democratically-governed island.

SEOUL, June 26 — Takeoffs and landings at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport were disrupted today for about three hours before dawn due to balloons launched by North Korea filled with refuse, an airport spokesman said.

SEOUL, June 10 — South Korea resumed loudspeaker broadcasts directed at North Korea yesterday, its military said, following through on a warning demanding Pyongyang stop sending balloons carrying trash into the South.

SEOUL, June 2 — North Korea said today it would stop sending balloons filled with trash over the border to South Korea, but vowed to resume the practice if anti-North Korean leaflets are flown over again from the South.

SEOUL, May 27 — Leaders of South Korea, Japan and China reaffirmed their commitment to pursuing denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula during their summit in Seoul today, hours after the North announced a satellite launch plan, reported Yonhap News Agency.

SYDNEY, May 7 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said it is unacceptable for Australian defence personnel to be put at risk in international airspace by the Chinese military as they took part in an operation to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea.

BERLIN, March 24 — Japan is expected to be declared winners of a 2026 World Cup qualifier in North Korea after the ruling body FIFA said on Saturday that the match originally scheduled to take place in Pyongyang would not be played, reported dpa news.

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SEOUL, Jan 25 — North Korea said it has tested its new strategic cruise missile yesterday, state media KCNA reported today, confirming what the South Korean military said the day before.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 — The recent six-day visit of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to Russia, which raised global concerns about potential arms deals between the two nations, occurred when both countries grappled with increasing international isolation.

SEOUL, Sept 7 — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Thursday any attempts to change the status quo by force in the South China Sea cannot be tolerated, calling for a rules-based maritime order in the region, his office said.